- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 11:53:25 -0400
- To: Internationalization Core Working Group Issue Tracker <sysbot+tracker@w3.org>
- Cc: www-international@w3.org, public-rdf-comments@w3.org
Internationalization Core Working Group Issue Tracker scripsit: > It's not clear why the \U form should take eight hex digits when the > first two are required to be 0. Because C++ did it and everybody follows them. It's better if all languages have the same representation of strings, even if it's not a very good one. -- First known example of political correctness: John Cowan After Nurhachi had united all the other http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Jurchen tribes under the leadership of the cowan@ccil.org Manchus, his successor Abahai (1592-1643) issued an order that the name Jurchen should --S. Robert Ramsey, be banned, and from then on, they were all The Languages of China to be called Manchus.
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